Help me find something?

NotPhil · 2010-02-27T21:26:05+00:00

I found several studies which showed a difference between "English"-sounding names and "foreign"-sounding names. Appearantly, if you have an African, Chinese, Indian or Pakistani derived name, you'll get fewer callbacks.

The only write-up I could find that listed the statistics for male vs. female names did, if you count only the English names, show a small bias in favor of female names: The nine women's names got a total of 93.9% callbacks, for an average rate of 10.43%, while the nine men's names got a total of 82.5% callbacks, for an average rate of 9.16%. (Oddly enough, though, "Brad" appears to be the best name to have on a resume. He got a 15.9% callback rate.)

Joeboy · 2010-02-27T11:42:48+00:00

Closest I can do is this:

In one study, first done in 1968 and then replicated in 1983, college students were asked to rate identical articles according to specific criteria. The authors' names attached to the articles were clearly male or female, but were reversed for each group of raters: what one group thought had been written by a male, the second group thought had been written by a female, and vice versa. Articles supposedly written by women were consistently ranked lower than when the very same articles were thought to have been written by a male [Goldberg 1968,Paludi et al 1985,Paludi et al 1983]. In a similar study, department chairs were asked to make hypothetical hiring decisions and to assign faculty rank on the basis of vita. For vitae with male names, chairs recommended the rank of associate professor; however, the identical vita with a female name merited only the rank of assistant professor [Fidell 1975].

Title	Help me find something?
Author	ignatiusloyola
Upvotes	11
Comments	3
Date	February 27, 2010 10:38 AM UTC (16 years ago)
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